Congratulations to both of you I really want Atheon's Epilogue. That void damage is sweet. I'm currently working on upgrading Mida-Multitool. I have a fast trigger-finger, so the hair-trigger upgrade is going to allow me to dish out a shít ton of damage

I cringe at the thought of having to do tons of crucible for some of my exotic bounties. I got my last exotic bounty today, which means that I've gotten all 5 of them in less than two weeks. RIP bounty space

I miss the days when I had something to look forward to. Them days when the very thought of taking part in a Nightfall strike used to scare the shit outta me

The good ol days. Cherish these moments well boys, cause you'll be in my position one day and you'll miss em.

I really hope the expansions offer something more interesting to this game, and not just a few new missions/planets/gear; because that will obviously just put us in the situation we're in now, eventually - we'll complete what's worth completing, and then we'll have to wait for the next expansion for something to do.

Vault of Glass was an interesting addition to the game, but there's definitely room for more variation/things to do/alternatives. Maybe it's just me, but I already think Vault of Glass has gotten really bland. I mean, it's alright.. but it's not that interesting anymore. Maybe the gloomy caverns and lack of colour has something to do with it? I don't know.. it just went from being really cool to kind of boring before I knew it. I want, and still need gear from VoG, but the thought of actually going there for the umpteenth time doesn't exactly stimulate my golden gun!

From what I hear, there's a lot of unreleased content on the disc already, so hopefully they've got something brand new in store for us that won't feel boring and repetitive too fast. They spent, what, 6 years on making this game? Internal conflicts or not, I refuse to believe that they don't have something more up their sleeve than a basic expansion of what's already there.

Eurogamer wrote:Bungie has detailed how Destiny's array of loot will be affected by impending expansion The Dark Below.

Exotic items - the game's top tier of weapons and armour - will get upgrades. But players will need to completely reset their progress with an item to apply its new buff.

Eurogamer wrote:Upgrading exotics will require a visit to Xûr, the game's travelling weekend merchant, who will offer to upgrade a specific handful of exotic items each week.

Each upgrade will require an Exotic Shard, the new upgrade material introduced in the game's 1st December patch which can also be obtained from Xûr for seven Strange Coins, or alternatively via dismantling another exotic item.

This will then unlock the upgraded form of your exotic item with a new upgrade slot - but it will also completely reset all of your progress with the exotic to date.

So according to Bungie, if I want to level up my current exotics, I'm going to need to wait for the unreliable Xur to have the upgrade for them, spend 7k glimmer and an exotic shard to increase their attk/def stats, but in the process they are completely reset and they lose their perks(the things that makes them exotic in the first place) and I have to level them up again?! WTF?!

Exotic gear needs 200,000 experience to be fully upgraded, so to upgrade all my gear again I need over 4 million experience!!!!! It took me 2 months of hardcore time investment to get that done the first time, and they want me to do it all again?! Fk off!!!!!!

They confirmed it(read:admited it) on their blog(click here) yesterday after the internet blew up, which just made the internet blow up even more.

Bungie Blog wrote:New Exotic Upgrading

Exotic Gear in The Dark Below will have higher Attack and Defense values than current Exotic Gear. For players and their current caches of Exotics, a path will exist to bring them forward into The Dark Below.

Starting December 9th, Xûr will offer players the opportunity to upgrade Exotics to the higher Attack and Defense values

Upgrading an Exotic in this way will require an Exotic Shard

The upgrade will reset the progression invested into the item

Each week, Xûr will possess a selection of upgrades for existing Exotics in his inventory

The funny thing is the Exotic upgrading fiasco isn't the worst part, the faction commendations needed to buy the new legendary gear(read:non-raid and non-exotic gear) is the real bullshit.

You gotta constantly grind that Crucible and Vanguard rep if you want to buy stuff from the vendors now, unlike there being a set reputation you needed to have to buy stuff like there used to be. New players to Destiny are royally screwed.